Taiz Siege and Influencer Neutrality: A Speaker’s Perspective

May your times be blessed with goodness.

Today, I’m here to talk to you about the most famous lies in modern and ancient times.

The first lie is that Taiz is under siege.

That’s the biggest load of nonsense. Some people still come and tell you that Taiz has been under siege for 12 years.

Huh? What’s wrong with it? It hasn’t been under siege for 12 years.

Taiz is not under siege. I challenge anyone to come and prove this lie of theirs, that Taiz is under siege.

The road is open, and the crossings are open, and food supplies have come in, and fuel products have come in, and medicines and medical supplies have come in.

International organizations have testified and confirmed that Sana’a is cooperating in bringing in medicines and medical supplies, and that the road is open, not closed or under siege.

A few days ago, one activist named Mohammed Al-Hassani went to the crossing and saw it was open, with everything fine and cars coming and going.

He filmed a natural, spontaneous video. He said the road was open.

The liars and frauds spreading this nonsense that Taiz is under siege went berserk.

Good grief! Because he exposed them and their lie.

Abu Haidar Al-Awlaqi showed up. I mean, well- known celebrities and influencers on social media.

He made a very ordinary, completely normal comment.

There was nothing offensive in it toward Taiz or its people, or anything.

Then the, the, the dogs started barking at him from everywhere.

And they all ganged up on him. “You’re an influencer, so you have to be neutral.”

Now we come to the second lie, which is one of the most famous lies throughout history.

“You’re neutral.” There’s no such thing as being neutral.

Listen, you’re a hypocrite because there’s right and wrong.

Whose side are you on?

There’s an oppressor and someone being oppressed.

Whose side are you on? They told him, “Abu Haidar, you have to be neutral.”

And the punishments against him began. Unfortunately, according to the information available, one of the major merchants in Sana’a, the solar energy and electric car dealer, Al-Raabi, canceled his contracts with Abu Haidar because Abu Haidar helped expose the lie that Taiz was under siege.

And here I wonder why are the official authorities silent about this behavior?

Are they living on this planet with us? Do they know what’s going on?

How can you stay silent about such acts?

No, no, that's not right.

The idea that I'm neutral, or you're neutral, or that you have to be neutral.

That's the biggest lie in history. There's no such thing as being neutral, folks.

This is one way of buying votes and silencing people by making them say they're neutral.

Stay out of politics. How can I stay out of politics?

Imagine you're walking down the street right now and you see someone assaulting a child.

Would you walk past and say, "Hey, I’m neutral.

It’s none of my business"?

If you're walking down a street anywhere right now in any neighborhood and you see someone assaulting and beating an elderly man, would you walk past and tell him, "Hey, I have nothing to do with politics"?

These activists, influencers, and celebrities who were bought off with Umrah trips went on Umrah, then came back neutral, saying it was none of their concern.

Our country is under attack. They said they were neutral.

Our women are being killed. Our children are being killed.

Our homes are being destroyed. Our infrastructure is being destroyed.

They tell you they're neutral. It has nothing to do with them.

How can it have nothing to do with you? How?

Explain it to me, brother. Help me understand.

One of those, uh, uh, uh, people who are obsessed with social media.

I mean, he’s been bothering people for a while.

Like I told you a while ago, he’s the… only honorable, chaste, spotless one.

Huh? And these days, he’s been holding the Quran upside down.

By God, I swear to God, by God’s Quran, he’s a warmonger.

Everyone’s working except him. He’s a warmonger.

Anyway, he posted something about the massacre in Bani Hushaysh.

A few hours later, they came in and told him— Told him, “Stay neutral.”

He closed the page, then came back— saying the page had been closed, then he reopened it and deleted the post.

Anyway… I mean, something, something affected people’s lives in an unbelievable way.

That’s not neutrality, for God’s sake. I mean, some of them, if there’s even a tiny skirmish like this, huh— inside the country, they suddenly become the defenders of the weak, the oppressed, condemning and denouncing it.

When the enemy attacks the country, killing women and children, huh, committing massacres, they turn a deaf ear.

Then they say they’re neutral.